And the cubs have won a WS game in your lifetime? Oh...and you're definitely in the 15% . Best of luck in the playoffs, "you"'re guaranteed to do well.
yeah right... we're talking about a freaking HURRICANE. so damn sorry we cant play ball right now, chicago. go **** yourselves. a$$holes.
wow, I've never had a reason to dislike cub players until this article. maybe they are ancy to play after the Astros punked them in their own yard 3 straight and won 5 of the last 6 games against them.
I had to highlight this one: I never saw that post and as far as I'm concerned, A.J. shouldn't have the right to use the word "we" when referring to Astros fans (he did this in several other posts). Cubs fan or not, if you are truly an Astros fan in any way, you don't come in here and gloat when the Cubs are winning or talk trash about the Astros under any circumstances. The way I see it, since A.J. said he was kidding about being a Cubs fan and talked trash about the Astros, he isn't a real fan of either team.
Obviously, AJ is under the age of 12, so the only thing he is a fan of is playing with himself and cotton candy. Every time that kid posts, I imagine the scene from A League of Their Own, in which the little bratty kid is running up and down the bus aisle with a chocolate bar all over his face. Can someone please find that scene and post it, and we can use to reply to every one of his 3rd grade insults.
Kind of ironic in that had the series moved to Chicago, they would probably have been rained out last night and things don't look promising for getting a game in today.
who cares about AJ? he roots for the cubs. obviously, he is delusional and perpetually depressed, don't expect too much from a dimwit like him. hey AJ, are you out there still? big man talking "you are only as valuable as your weight in the world series" mess behind a computer screen? you seem to have disappeared conveniently, after getting repeatedly owned...
The quotes from McLane sound more and more like this will actually go to Milwaukee, and that's absolutely a travesty. Take away the biggest series of the Astros season and make them virtual road games -- it's unbelievable. I'm not insensitive to the needs of greater Houston, but playing the games in Houston this weekend isn't the only alternative. They can play them after the season, if it turns out they're necessary. They can play them this weekend in a city that's not about an hour from Chicago. But playing these games in Milwaukee is the easiest solution for Bud Selig, and it sounds like McLane is willing to bend over backwards for Selig again. It's the same principle that led to the Astros losing countless draft picks because of a refusal to go over "slot money" and anger Selig, while almost every other team in the league did it. I'm not a Drayton basher, but it will be an absolute shame if he lets these games be played in Milwaukee, and it sounds like that's exactly what he's going to do. Yet again, pleasing his buddy Bud Selig seems like it'll take priority over what's best for the organization.
Cubs are crap; so are their fans. To everyone responding to AJ: don't feed the prepubescent trolls. Geez.
I'm not sure it's quite this simple. After the season is the worst-case-scenario. You're talking two or three days there, with the Cubs maybe not even caring. And then you may have another day or two of potential wild-card one-game playoffs. Teams that weren't involved in the mess could be sitting for a week between the regular season and playoffs - that would be a nightmare for baseball. I do think another location would have been better. But you have to have a team that's away both Sunday and Monday, where there's zero chance of rain, and that can host on a moment's notice - if you're going to have a stadium with fans, you need people to handle security, ticket takers, concessions, etc. Apparently, Milwaukee hosted a Cleveland game last year in a similar situation, so they might just be better prepped for it on short notice - not really sure. It does suck for Houston, but there a lot of other factors MLB has to consider here.
With about 500 doubleheaders going on this weekend, I don't see why, if they were only going to play two games, that they couldn't play them both on Sunday, greatly enlarging the pool of possibilities. They could easily play two in Arlington, for example, and actually have Astros fans in attendance. If you waited until after the season, would it suck for teams that had to wait? Absolutely, but imo, that should be a secondary priority to having a level playing field in the regular season to set the playoffs -- otherwise, the entire experience is devalued. Even so, the Astros were incredibly generous and willing to play at a neutral site -- but even that wasn't enough for Selig, who put them in the only place in baseball that wouldn't be anything close to neutral. You're absolutely right that it's no coincidence that Milwaukee has been the host in both of these situations, and it seems likely it's due to Selig's ties with management there. It goes back to what we were talking about -- putting his own personal convenience ahead of fairness and the best interest of the game. I don't deny that it's a complex process, like you said -- but I just don't see how Milwaukee is the only option. Seems incomprehensible, really.
Or San Antonio?? I completely agree. Houston is hurting; let's take their baseball and their football away, too.
MLB has pretty well-defined lighting requirements at stadiums. As I understand it, the minor league venues do not fit the bill & were not an option.
St. Louis? The BoB? The Trop?? Arlington??? One HOUR from Chicago??? Despicable. The conspiracy theorists must be having a heyday with this one.
